Avian terminology Flashcards
Order of perching birds including canaries, finches, and sparrows
Passeriformes
Order of birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans
Anseriformes
Common name used for birds such as parrots, macaws, cockatoos, conures, lovebirds, parakeets, cockatiels, and budgies.
Psittacine
Order of birds with short beaks, short legs, small heads, and stout bodies. Examples include pigeons and doves
Columbiformes
Group of running birds with a flat, raft‐like sternum and strong muscular legs. These are flightless birds due to their lack of a keel bone. Examples include the ostrich, emu, rhea, and kiwi.
Ratite
Farmed, domesticated birds such as fowl, turkey, ducks, and geese
Poultry
Intact female ratite.
Hen
Young ratite.
Chick
Young ratite.
Chick
Intact male turkey
Tom
Young psittacine.
Chick
Intact female turkey.
Hen
Intact female goose.
Goose
Intact male duck
drake
young female chicken
pullet
Commercial fowl that is laying eggs.
layer
Castrated male fowl.
capon
Group of young birds produced from one hatching.
Brood
Group of eggs.
clutch
Intact male ratite.
rooster
Young turkey.
poult
Intact male psittacine.
cock
Intact male goose
gander
Young male chicken.
cockeral
Group of young birds produced from one hatching.
brood
